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| 11342165254 | The dominant language of the Zenj was | Swahili | 0 | |
| 11342171175 | Ile-Ife was a cultural center in | Nigeria | 1 | |
| 11342174978 | Alafins were the kings of | Oyo | 2 | |
| 11342179924 | Benin was a | city state | 3 | |
| 11342187644 | The Bantu migration reached southern Africa in what century? | 13th century | 4 | |
| 11342198264 | Great Zimbabwe was named for its | monumental buildings | 5 | |
| 11342205104 | The Mwene Mutapa was the ruler of | Great Zimbabwe | 6 | |
| 11342212567 | The secret societies of west Africa served to | balance the influence of different groups | 7 | |
| 11342222631 | Prior to the arrival of Islam, urbanization in Africa was concentrated | north of the Sahara | 8 | |
| 11342232858 | What resulted from the empires of the Almoravids and Almohadis? | cultural bridge across the Sahara | 9 | |
| 11342240005 | Around the year 1200, Ethiopia differed from the rest of sub-Saharan Africa because it was | Christian | 10 | |
| 11342249400 | The impact of the spread of Islam in Africa was to | isolate Ethiopia | 11 | |
| 11342258788 | What gave Ghana an advantage in African commerce? | position in the Sahel | 12 | |
| 11342263098 | In relation to Ghana, Mali was a | successor state | 13 | |
| 11342271835 | Ghana, Mali, and Songhay are shown to have been | typical of a pattern of state formation | 14 | |
| 11342278736 | Under Sundiata. the Mali state was | strengthened and expanded | 15 | |
| 11342282942 | In the case of Timbuktu, ________ expanded the city's status, which was initially based on its position as a center of ________. | the arrival of Islam / commerce | 16 | |
| 11342300500 | As a historical source, the epic of Sundiata would be of most use to historians attempting to understand the | place of Sundiata in Manlinke culture | 17 | |
| 11342309275 | What pattern was continued by Songhay? | states arising through control of Saharan trade routes | 18 | |
| 11342323990 | Which group in the Sudan grew in power as a result of the spread of Islam in the region? | rulers | 19 | |
| 11342329543 | In terms of social practices, in the Sudanic states Islamic customs | were modified by earlier local ones | 20 | |
| 11342339848 | The cities of Zenj are best considered ______ in culture | international | 21 | |
| 11342350648 | trade in Zenj was confined to the | coast | 22 | |
| 11342357796 | What aspect of Zenj was reflected by the Swahili? | a mixed cultural heritage | 23 | |
| 11342365706 | The capital of the Byzantine Empire was at | Constantinople | 24 | |
| 11342372660 | What technologies did the Byzantine Empire borrow from China? | silk production | 25 | |
| 11356482098 | The language of the Byzantine Empire was | Greek | 26 | |
| 11356489195 | In the early Byzantine Empire, the greatest enemy to the east was | the Sassanian Empire | 27 | |
| 11356504136 | In the sixth century, ____ tried to reconquer portions of the western Roman Empire | justinian | 28 | |
| 11356509264 | Hagia Sophia was the great _______ of Constantinople. | church | 29 | |
| 11356515946 | Belisarius is best known as a Byzantine | military leader | 30 | |
| 11356537800 | Who moved into the Balkans in the early Byzantine Empire, pushing against the empire's northern border? | Slavs | 31 | |
| 11356541537 | Greek fire is the name of a _________ used by the Byzantines. | weapon | 32 | |
| 11356560294 | What was the name of the Slavic kingdom in the Balkans that posed a threat to the Byzantine Empire's northern border? | Bolgeria | 33 | |
| 11356564939 | The use of the term tsar in Bulgaria recalled what earlier empire? | Roman | 34 | |
| 11356570640 | Byzantine icons usually represented | Saints | 35 | |
| 11356577049 | What occurred in 1054? | Schism within the Christian church | 36 | |
| 11356588912 | The battle of Manzikert ended in a ____ victory | Arab | 37 | |
| 11356595642 | Constantinople was captured in what century? | 15th century | 38 | |
| 11356604327 | In 1204, Constantinople was attacked by a Crusade led by the | Venetians | 39 | |
| 11356613099 | Cyril and Methodius were influential in creating | Slavic alphabet | 40 | |
| 11356623997 | Which eastern European nation had the highest concentration of Jews in the Middle Ages? | Poland | 41 | |
| 11356632513 | What is traditionally credited with founding Russia's first dynasty? | Rurik | 42 | |
| 11356642935 | What was the name of a key Scandinavian trading post in Dnieper? | Kiev | 43 | |
| 11356647143 | Kievan Rus' is the given name to the | Russian State | 44 | |
| 11356655165 | Which influential decision was undertaken by Vladimir I? | Conversion to Orthodox Christianity | 45 | |
| 11356661264 | The boyars were Russian | landed nobles | 46 | |
| 11356672300 | Which ruler used marriage alliances to tie the Russian ruling dynasty to other European ruling houses? | Yaroslav the wise | 47 | |
| 11356678528 | The Tartars were | the Mongol invaders of Russia | 48 |
